Improvement in wash-boilers



D. D. HOOPER. WAsH-BOILER.

No.175,100. Patented March 21,1876.

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Y U NITED STATE-s PATENT OFFICE.

DAVID D. HOOPEROF BIDDEFORD, MAINE, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF HIS RIGHT TO ROBERT M. STEVENS, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT `IN WASH-BOILERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 175,100, dated March 21, 1876; application filed i January 4, 1876.

'to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specilication, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective View of my inventlon, and Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section of the base, withthe tubes broken away.

This invention' has for its object to construct a Wash-boiler that may be manufactured at a reduced cost, and at the same time a perfect operating' device for the purpose intended, and consists inthe combination and arran relment of the several parts, as will be hereinafter described and subsequently pointed out in the claim.- Y y In the accompanying drawings, Arepresents the false bottom or base, to be .placed 'within a wash-boiler of the ordinary construe `that the water is allowed to ilow back to the bottom of the boiler.

` boiler and cover the tubes.

From the false bottom A projects two vertical tubes, B, communicating With thepspace underneath the same, and are formed with small perforations d. These tubes B extend about half lWay to the topo'f the Vboiler and connect a horizontal tube, C, at both ends, said tube being formed with perforations e and perforations f at each end. r*

Water is to be put in the boiler sufficient in quantity to cover the false bottom A, with the desired amount of soap. The boiler now being placed on the tire, and the clothes, after being soaked, placed therein, will fill said Then the Water boils it forces the steam through the tubes and out through the perforations, and around and through the clothes.-

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a wash-boiler, the false bottom A, with flange a, and perforations or openings b, and the partition-place c, in combination with the perforated vertical tubes B and horizontal tube C, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

DAViD D.` HooPER.

Witnesses:

EDGAR A. HU'BBARD, HENRY I. LORD. 

